Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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7 things you can do to help.

Well, here we are. Late Eclipses [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy] comes out in one week, exactly. If past trends hold true*, people will begin reporting sightings in the wild any day now. This will either cause me to clap my hands, cry, hyperventilate, or all of the above. Safe money is, as always, on "all of the above." And so here are seven things you can do to help with this book release!

7. Talk about the book. Are you excited that it's coming? Awesome. Are you excited about the series as a whole? Awesome. Do you plan to use Late Eclipses to fuel your world-buster canon? Rock on. Word-of-mouth is the best advertising there is.

6. Review the book. Do it on your blog, on Amazon, on Goodreads, wherever you feel comfortable. Reviews help more than almost anything else. (But please, please, do not send me copies of your Amazon reviews. I try to avoid that particular pitcher plant of pain.)

5. Loan copies of Rosemary and Rue to people you think might be interested. The first hit's free!

4. Do not poke at me with sharp, sharp sticks. I am a very thinly-stretched blonde right now, on account of book release and all, and I am neither fast to respond nor particularly well-suited to being jabbed at. Please, be gentle, and understand that right now, you're looking at a longer than normal response time.

3. I love fan mail, and I respond to everything I get, although it can sometimes take a while. Please don't get upset if I don't answer right away.

2. Also? Please don't ask for kitten pictures. Seriously.

1. And the number-one thing you can do to help Late Eclipses have a successful launch is...buy the book. Please, please, buy the book. During the first on-sale week if you possibly can, because that's the week that counts against all the bestseller lists. Making those lists is a long shot, but a girl's gotta dream, right? So if you're planning to buy the book, please, go out and do it. Let's see if we can hit the NYT.

If we do, I promise to faint.

(*Past trends may not hold true. Traditionally, early copies have been spotted at Borders, and I don't know whether Borders will be receiving any shipments of Late Eclipses. I actually dare to hope that my on-sale date may be accurate this time.)
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Is B&N a trouble source?

jarissa

February 24 2011, 00:19:51 UTC 6 years ago

I tend to do most of my book acquisition through the local Barnes & Noble, as my only other option around here is Books-A-Hundred (well, they say "million", but the store doesn't have much selection and a hefty chunk of the inventory they DO have is religious in nature).

You're one of several fantastic authors who tend to include an Amazon link and a link to someone else, but not the B&N link. Is it because they fill the pre-orders any time they please? Are they taking more of the proceeds than any other seller? Are they carriers of an otherworldy voodoo curse which affects only creators? Do they have a secret lawyer contract with Wolfram and Hart? Do they not report your total sales numbers in time for the NYT calculations?

If they're doing you (and other authors) wrong, or even less than right, I will cheerfully move more of my book purchases to Mysterious Galaxy, and restrict my in-person purchases to stuff that's been out a good while. If they're normally as well-behaved as any other seller, I'll just continue to not pre-order books from them.

Thank you kindly!

Re: Is B&N a trouble source?

seanan_mcguire

February 24 2011, 16:00:11 UTC 6 years ago

They're not a trouble source; their sales code is just a lot harder to manually update than Amazon's (which makes it blazingly easy). I link to MG, even though Borderlands is my local, because they have the program set up to, again, make it easy. When it's not easy, we don't do it. Sad but true.

I love B&N.

Whew!

jarissa

February 24 2011, 19:09:59 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! I will quit worrying, then, and resume the previous plan.

I'm so excited to go shopping next Tuesday!